"Rainy Days and Mondays...."

I will start out by saying that the choice of music in many of the restaurants here is "interesting" and amusing. Everything from musak of Sinatra, 60's hits, "mood music", really bad 80's tunes (a redundancy?) and symphonic renditions of the Carpenters, Beatles, Kennny G and more. As the rain has been torrential the last few days (we postulate a direct result of the Japanese Tsunami and its after shocks) it was particularly poetic to hear this Carpetner's song at breakfast this morning. I will say that my somewhat melancholy mood turned into a wide grin when the song came on...
The good news is...so far the rain has not impacted us too badly. We went to Phuket Town Saturday by local bus ($6 round trip)and spent the day and night there. Had one of our best meals at an Italian place called Gaetana's! The owner, Gianni, from Pompeii is very involved in a Child Care Center called Phuket Sunshine Village started after the Tsunakmi to help children in need, many who were orphaned. Gianni is married to a Thai woman and she and their daughter both help him at this "gem" of a resturant with only 5 tables. We sat in the courtyard and it was truly special. What music was playing????? Wonderful Jazz the likes of Ella and Louis. We gave Gianni the website for WWOZ which he wrote down enthusiastically. Ambassadors of New Orleans all over the world!
We tried to catch a movie but were too late for anything in English and terrible choices. We do miss our movies! Mickey is going to see the premier of "Nauresan", the third installment in a series of action movies loved by the locals here. He will travel back to Phuket Town with some of the local folks from our host NGO. Another adventure!